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Takahiro Shiraishi was put to death on Friday, eight years after body parts were found in coolers at his home outside Tokyo. It was Japan’s first execution in years.

By Martin Fackler

Reporting from Tokyo

Japan’s justice minister announced the execution on Friday of a man convicted in the serial killings of nine people, whose mutilated and decomposing body parts were found in his home outside Tokyo eight years ago.